So angry they can’t think straight
by digby
Think Progress reports that Republican facebook users have worse grammar than Democratic Facebook users:
Bernie Sanders supporters might think you’re great, but Donald Trump supporters think your an idiot.
Grammar-wise, that’s at least what might be derived from a new analysis released Tuesday by the proofreading app Grammarly. By analyzing the spelling and grammar of comments on each presidential candidate’s Facebook page, the analysis found that Republican supporters made mistakes at nearly twice the rate of Democratic supporters.
To get their results, Grammarly went to each candidates’ Facebook page, taking comments that were at least 15 words long and expressed either positive or neutral feelings about the candidate. Then, the app selected at least 180 of those comments to analyze for each candidate.
The analysis — intended by Grammarly to be “a lighthearted look at how well the 2016 presidential candidates’ supporters write when they’re debating online” — found that, for every 100 words written, an average Democratic candidate supporter made 4.2 mistakes, while an average Republican candidate backer made 8.7 errors. It also asserted that Democratic supporters have larger vocabularies, using 300 unique words for every 1,000 words they use, compared to Republicans who only use only 245 unique words for every 1,000.
It’s fun to think that Republicans are dumb. But they aren’t any dumber than Democrats. I suspect their grammar mistake are due to the fact that they more often tend to write with great passion and anger. That leads to mistakes. I know. (Oh, do I know …)
Still, you cannot help but chuckle a bit over the fact that the Donald’s supporters are, well, to put it in terms they would prefer, yuuuuuge winners in the competition for who has the worst grammar:
Trump better watch his back. Rubio’s supporters are right on his tail making 8.8 mistakes per 100 words. He’s cutting into Trump’s lead with the illiterate.
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